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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Sperber"”.
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Irony in a second language: exploring the comprehension of Japanese speakers of English
… relevance-theoretic account of irony as echoic (Sperber and Wilson 1995; Wilson and Sperber 2012), arguing that previous work suffers from both problematic theoretical assumptions and flawed experimental methods. The thesis reports the findings of two experiments designed to examine similarities …
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Intertextuality and translation : a relevance-theoretic approach
… itself.In Part II it is shown how Sperber and Wilson's (1986/1995) relevancetheoreticapproach to cognition and communication provides answers to theproblems raised in Part I. A relevance-theoretic analysis of intertextuality isdeveloped, based on the notions of metarepresentation …
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El futuro en francés : análisis semántico-pragmático (una perspectiva relevantista)
… de la teoría de la relevancia de Sperber y Wilson y en la óptica procedimental desarrollada en los últimos años. Este tipo de análisis es planteado como alternativa a otras tentativas de estudio apoyadas fuertemente en una dimensión ontológica o en una perspectiva conceptual, por …
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FMRI studies of the relationship between language and theory of mind in adult cognition
… and goals (e.g., Grice 1957, 1968, 1975; Sperber & Wilson, 1986). Many questions remain about the precise nature of the relationship between language processing and Theory of Mind (ToM), and their neural substrates. On the one hand, the two domains share an intimate connection given that …
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The pragmatics of repetition, emphasis and intensification
… carried out within Relevance Theory pragmatics (Sperber & Wilson, 1986/1995) and draws on the showing-saying continuum developed by Wharton (2009). From the point of view of how they achieve relevance, the repeated forms examined are all analysed as cases of indeterminate showing (Sperber & …
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Negotiating a Punctuated Landscape: A Study of Asyndetic Translation Based on Relevance Theory
… English in literary texts. To do so, it adopts Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory, noting how this theory not only accounts for poetic effects but also provides a principle that can guide translators as they seek to replicate these effects. This thesis then uses relevance theory to analyze …
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The German reportative subjunctive: a relevance-theoretic analysis
This study uses Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory in order to provide an original account of the German verb form known as the reportative subjunctive, which occurs exclusively in indirect-speech contexts. It is argued that the German reportative subjunctive encodes procedural meaning, whose …
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Discourse Markers of clarification and causality in Maghrebi and Egyptian dialects: a socio-pragmatic perspective
… Using a Relevance Theoretic framework (Sperber and Wilson, 1986, 1995; Blakemore, 1987), this dissertation posits that DMs signal pragmatic inferences that are performed by the addressee. Specifically, I argue that the notion of procedural meaning, a set of instructions which guides the …
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Reference in Udi narrative discourse
… Zacharski (1993) and Relevance Theory (Wilson & Sperber 2004) to describe Udi linguistic reference forms. I will examine these forms according to Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski's hierarchy as a method of the introduction and tracking of participants, especially, in the narrative texts of the …
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From Irritants to Satisfaction: A Model of a Theory of Meaning Applied to Reading the‘Sabbath of the LORD’ Motif In Exodus 16
… Bakhtin’s theory of literary criticism, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s theory of relevance. This model of interpretation is furthermore applied to reading the ‘Sabbath of the LORD’ motif in the narrative in Exodus 16. It is suggested that the research should be continued by applying this …
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La literatura en la enseñanza del alemán como segunda lengua extranjera
… although the advances in the Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1986) substitute here some theoretical aspects of that work connected to the field of Discourse Analysis.Specific didactic units for the use of German Literature in our lessons, their detailed description and analysis, are given in …
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Procesamiento modismos: Un enfoque psicopragmático
… Jr., and the pragmatic approach represented by Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory.This work is structured in six chapters. Chapter 1 offers a terminological and typological analysis of the most common terms used to define idioms. This analysis highlights the vagueness with which the different …
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Investigations of hexagonal boron nitride: bulk crystals and atomically-thin two dimensional layers
Hexagonal boron nitride has been used as an inert, refractory material with excellent resistance to thermal decomposition and oxidation for more than fifty years. In the past few years, hBN has been targeted for potential electrical and optical devices such as neutron detectors, ultraviolet light …
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Rural income, welfare and migration : a study of three Ciskeian villages
The on-going significance of the rural areas in policy formation in South Africa has its roots in the country's spatially skewed population distribution and the persistence of 'oscillating' or 'circular' migration. Thus, rural income (its level, sources and distribution) and rural welfare remain …
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Problemas epistemológicos asociados a la implementación de la ilocutividad en teorías pragmáticas naturalistas
… además con la teoría de la cultura de Sperber. Con ello se consigue no solo identificar problemas conceptuales, sino también proponer ciertas soluciones a partir de la argumentación racional. Esta tesis sigue una metodología propia de la filosofía analítica, como es el análisis …
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On Some Applications of a Generalized Dwork Trace Formula to L-functions associated to Exponential Sums over Galois Rings
… in [Bom66] and the improvement by Adolphson and Sperber [AS87a]. We will conclude with a brief discussion on some interesting applications and extensions of this work that are worth investigating. To the reader who lacks sufficient mathematical background: Finding integer solutions to polynomial …
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Cross-cultural linguistic politeness: Misunderstanding between Arabs and British speakers of English.
… and using theories of cognition, such as Sperber and Wilson (1995)'s relevance theory, this research tries to introduce a more contextual pragmatic approach that better analyses politeness in cross-cultural interaction. This study examines data from interactions between native and …